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Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First - Episode 280/6 Things People should Care Less About - Donald Trump







Thursday                       21st June 2018

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First

Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 280

Title:          6 Things People should Care Less About - Donald Trump

In this series of the 6 Things People Should Care Less About, we have considered 


1.     MassShootings And Terrorism

2.     Saving The Children

3.     Steroids

4.      Artificial Intelligence

5.      Sexually Transmitted Diseases

And today we are considering

6. TRUMP

Alright, I’m ready for the hate mail. Let’s do this…

I think the most contentious position one can have in the US right now is that Trump isn’t really that big of a deal.

That’s because most people on the left think he’s the second coming of Hitler/Stalin/Satan/Apollo Creed and is going to start World War 3.

And most people on the right think he’s America’s savior who is going to “fix” everything and we’re all going to party like it’s 1959.

I think he is neither.

The right is wrong because it’s clear that he’s a shitty, ineffective, and needlessly controversial president.

The left is wrong because they forget that US history is full of shitty, ineffective, needlessly controversial presidents. And you know what happened to most of them?

Nothing.

That’s right. A big ol’ nothing-burger.

The US system is incredibly complex and robust.
The President’s power is overrated.
In fact, the Presidency is only a recent obsession (in the era of reality TV and sound bites).
The President always gets credit for things he didn’t do and always gets blamed for things he didn’t fuck up.

Look, even competent and popular Presidents have trouble getting their agenda done.
Trump is not competent, nor is he popular.
He’s a nothing-burger (cooked well done and with lots of ketchup).

Even smart and successful Presidents struggle to enact their foreign policy goals.
They are hamstrung by large bureaucracies, Congress, the legal system, and the international order.
And here you have a guy who probably thinks Frederick Douglas is an NBA player for the Knicks.

The US system requires the effort of hundreds if not thousands of people to move it.
The President is supposed to be the one to corral them. But Trump can’t even corral his own wife to spend more than a few hours with him, so what exactly are we freaking out about?

Look, I know Trump is a piece of shit. I know he’s hurt a lot of people. But on a societal/national policy level, he’s nothing that the US system hasn’t seen or survived before. So let’s calm our shit on the armageddon/Hitler talk. Life will go on.

Trump is possibly the biggest example of the Kardashian Rule to date.
The same way Kim Kardashian seems successful because she gets so much attention, Trump seems evil because he pisses you off so much. But the fact is that neither is true.

Trump isn’t that evil.
He’s a bumbling narcissist who thinks life is one never-ending competition for TV ratings.

And as with Kardashian or school shootings, the more attention we shovel in his direction, the more empowered he becomes, and the more we encourage other politicians to follow in his footsteps.

People are always complaining that he should delete his Twitter account, but how about this: stop reading it! Stop clicking on articles about shit he tweeted. Stop watching news segments about shit he tweeted. You don’t just vote with your ballot every four years, in 2018, you vote with your attention as well.

This is how we change the narrative direction of the country. Not by stamping our feet and demanding this guy who has been an asshat for 70 years suddenly change himself. That’s not going to happen.

A lot is made about #Resistance and all that, and look, I get it. It’s good to stand up to a shithead bully in the opposing party. Anything that gives the Democrats a semblance of a backbone is probably needed.

But there’s some responsibility on us, as a population as well — namely, our consumption habits.

If we’re unhappy with our celebrities, politicians and leaders, in the end, we’re the ones who created them.
So what does that say about us?

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Written By Mark Manson

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  1. Chukwuebuka Asadu June 21, 2018 at 11:52 AM

    Thanks for the write up. Some of us waste the time we are expected to be productive with and end up usinh8it to CRITICISE, COMPLAIN AND CONDEMN me Trump. I see nothing wrong with what he is doing, I just have the feeling he will fix US, it may not be now, but definitely he will. Personal opinion though....
    All the same, thanks Dr. Jerry 're first

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    1. Success With Dr. Jerry - the FirstJune 22, 2018 at 5:13 AM

      Oh yes Ebuka
      Thanks for bringing this to the fore
      Humanity is meant to live that way, find fault with everything they can not discern and most times they have been proven wrong.
      Every system is robust and corrects itself from within. It's even much more so in the developed Countries of which the United States is the Leader
      It shall be well

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